Recaps

After Aymond killed his challenger with one strike, the Twenty-third Legion prepared to receive Parambria’s surrender, but Lancaster escaped and left the army under Xiu Hun Lu’s control. The controlled troops kept attacking Tyrannus Fortress until the defenders awaited a planned final assault at dawn, while the Twenty-second Legion and Aeran auxiliaries secretly approached the enemy camp.

• Aymond killed his opponent with one strike, and Rokhv ordered the Twenty-third Legion to prepare for Parambria’s surrender and a victory banquet.
• Lancaster handed command of the Parambria army to a general controlled by Xiu Hun Lu, then fled into the mountains with his guards, Black Frost Legion soldiers, and elite professionals.
• The controlled commander and other generals ordered the Parambria troops to attack Tyrannus Fortress, where the exhausted defenders endured repeated assaults throughout the day.
• Cassius and Doxius discussed the abnormal attacks, then agreed to follow Angus’s plan for the Twenty-second Legion and Knight Legion to launch a final assault at dawn.
• The Twenty-second Legion and Aeran Auxiliary Army advanced under cover of night and reached the Parambria camp without being detected.

The Parambria Kingdom army continued its futile assault on Tyrannus Fortress even as Ravenna’s forces breached its rear camp. After Ravenna ordered a counterattack, the fortress defenders emerged to attack from the other direction, leaving the Parambria troops collapsing and their Xiu Hun Lu-affected generals making suicidal attacks.

• At sunrise, the red-haired youth ordered his troops to keep attacking Tyrannus Fortress despite the enemy army approaching from the northwest.
• Ravenna’s forty-thousand-strong force entered the Parambria Kingdom main camp, found only wounded soldiers, and learned that the rest had been sent to assault the fortress.
• After scouts confirmed the relentless siege and its immense casualties, Ravenna ordered his army to advance on Tyrannus Fortress and end the battle.
• Cassius and Doxius prepared the fortress forces, while seventeen Soul Intent Tier Transcendents flew out to attack the enemy rear and the Ninth Corps and Fourteenth Legion marched through the opened gates.
• Attacked from both directions, Parambria Kingdom formations collapsed and surrendered as generals affected by Xiu Hun Lu launched suicidal attacks against the Soul Intent Tier Transcendents.
• The last remaining Level Eight warrior crashed into a camp accepting surrenders, tearing up the ground with a massive explosion.

After the battle at Tyrannus Fortress, Cassius accepted responsibility for a strategic failure, and Velin decided how to deal with him. Velin then announced that he would personally command the coming attack on Okra Kingdom and began preparing orders for the campaign.

• A Parambria Kingdom commander’s attack obliterated thousands of surrendered soldiers and auxiliaries, while Eze survived nearby and ordered his men to rescue the wounded and gather the fallen’s belongings.
• Cassius, Doxius, and Ravenna reviewed reports that Parambria Kingdom had evacuated more than eighty thousand people; Cassius rejected Ravenna’s plan for another battle and accepted responsibility himself.
• Velin read Cassius’s report and decided to remove him from his posts before appointing him commander of the Qixing Legion, while Doxius temporarily took command of the Ninth Legion.
• Velin told Kyle that he intended to personally command the attack on Okra Kingdom, explaining that he wanted to coordinate the forces and improve his command skills.
• Velin began writing orders concerning Cassius, the Three Corps’ strategic roles, the final offensive against Okra Kingdom, and rewards for the war’s heroes.

Parambria reeled from the defeat and death of Airedes as its king and church prepared for the growing threat, while the Okra Kingdom's leadership fractured under the Qixing Army's advance. In Baimu City, Velin reviewed the defection of the Twelve Dukes and was asked to make Cask Province the First Corps' next main line of attack.

• Damian learned that Airedes and his million-strong army had been destroyed, then ordered Lancaster brought back to the capital.
• Vaghar ordered Cardinal Sid to gather intelligence on the Qixing Army, declare a Holy War, and watch Damian for signs of unusual behavior.
• Oleus failed to persuade the Twelve Dukes to commit their remaining forces, while the dukes returned to their estates to confer with their confidants.
• Velin arrived at First Corps headquarters in Baimu City, where Orlando reported that five dukes wanted to join the Qixing Army, three sought safe passage for themselves and their followers, and four had shown goodwill.
• A First Corps general asked Velin whether they could make the Cask Province direction their main line of attack.

Velin questioned Orlando about the size and cost of the First Corps’ Aeran Auxiliary Army, then rewarded the corps with the campaign’s first battle and a chance to claim territory. He tasked Orlando with leading the First Corps toward the Okra Kingdom’s royal capital, while Ignatius agreed to help Velin’s newborn nation.

• Orlando revealed that the First Corps had trained 750,000 Aeran Auxiliary Army soldiers, and that fully applying his methods could raise one million regular troops and three million militia at the cost of collapsing the provinces’ economies.
• Velin docked Orlando’s salary for ten years for acting without permission, but rewarded the First Corps with the campaign’s first battle and promised Orlando any one of the Okra Kingdom’s twenty provinces.
• Ignatius promised to remain in the newborn nation for a hundred years, try to recruit old acquaintances, and discipline Velin’s father.
• Orlando reported that the First Corps retained 400,000 Auxiliary Army soldiers after lending 200,000 to the Second Corps and 150,000 to the Third Corps.
• Velin told Orlando to make the First Corps the first force to break into the Okra Kingdom’s royal capital during the battle between the Three Corps.

Velin inspected the depressed commercial district of Baimu Province, where retired Aeran soldiers ran shops, then convened the corps commanders in the North River Valley Province. He reviewed the three major battles and declared the war to destroy the Okra Kingdom officially underway.

• Velin sent Orlando away to rest and explored the commercial district with Kyle in disguise.
• Velin saw that retired Aeran auxiliary soldiers ran the district’s 137 shops, including Kern, a disabled veteran whose retirement had been arranged by the First Corps.
• Half a month later, Velin arrived at a heavily guarded meeting in the provincial capital of the North River Valley Province.
• Velin reviewed the Black Abyss Battle, the Ice Ash Battle, and the Youyu Battle, noting their role in establishing the army’s foothold and trapping over one million Parambria Kingdom troops.
• Velin promised rewards after the Okra Kingdom was exterminated and officially opened the war meeting.

Velin briefed the commanders on the three corps’ roles in the coming invasion and used the meeting to coordinate their forces. As Great Xia prepared to attack, King Oleus faced enemy armies on several fronts and shrinking control over the Okra Kingdom.

• Orlando reported that the First Corps would attack northern Okra Province and Treya Province with three armies, while Ilisis and Angus outlined the Second and Third Corps’ assignments.
• Velin had the legion commanders explain their orders and discuss how to coordinate their units before the campaign began.
• Velin sent Angus a message revealing that Angus’s father-in-law had intercepted and destroyed one of his coded letters, leaving Angus to fear future punishment.
• In early December 9798, King Oleus reviewed reports showing enemy forces massing around the kingdom and nobles and royals secretly seeking their own survival.

Oleus sacrificed his soul to draw the Crimson Abyss Sword, allowing the Okra Kingdom’s founding ancestor to possess his body. The ancestor recognized that the kingdom could not be saved and summoned White Rose Duke Elissina to discuss preserving the royal bloodline.

• Oleus entered the underground treasury and drew the Crimson Abyss Sword, whose purple light devoured his soul.
• The founding ancestor awakened in Oleus’s body and learned that the Okra Kingdom had lost most of its territory and army, while its nobles were divided.
• The ancestor concluded that fleeing was the only way out and decided to send as many royal descendants as possible to safety.
• The ancestor left for the Administrative Hall and ordered two Level 7 Knights to summon White Rose Duke Elissina.
• Elissina postponed her meeting and set out for the royal palace after deciding that Oleus would not risk destabilizing the capital by moving against her.

Ross Okra revealed himself to Elissina and asked her to evacuate all royal youths under fifty from the Okra Kingdom in exchange for a fifth of the royal treasury. Elissina accepted the evacuation mission but refused the money, and Ross gave her a purple sphere of light instead.

• Elissina recognized that the man posing as Oleus was Ross Okra, the Okra Kingdom's founding king, from his appearance and the Crimson Abyss Sword.
• Ross revealed his identity and offered Elissina one-fifth of the royal treasury to take all royal youths under fifty out of the kingdom.
• Ross said he could remain for only three months and that the war would continue because the conflict could not be ended by his will alone.
• Elissina accepted the deal but refused the royal wealth, warning that taking it could make it difficult to leave.
• Ross sent Elissina a purple sphere of light in place of the treasury wealth.

As the Qixing Army closed in on the Okra Kingdom's Royal Capital, Ross secretly prepared for the kingdom's fall while its nobles fled or plotted betrayal. The First Corps reached the city walls, leaving the capital surrounded by a vast land and sky force.

• Elissina received Ross's sphere of law understanding and agreed to keep his existence secret; after she left, Ross resumed Oleus's appearance.
• The Qixing Army's First, Second, and Third Corps and Ignis's seven Floating Fleets advanced toward Okra Kingdom from several directions as its forces began surrendering.
• Ross ignored reports of the approaching enemy while reading in the Royal Palace, and Elissina left White Rose Manor with the Red-haired Woman, abandoning her roses.
• As nobles fled and the Sky Fleet neared the capital, Ross ordered a purge of traitorous nobles and imprisoned a loyal general who demanded action, marking his name for protection.
• After a day and night of bloodshed in the Noble District, more than two hundred thousand First Corps troops arrived beneath the Royal Capital's walls on January 6, 9799, with over four hundred Floating Battleships overhead.

Velin ordered the First Floating Fleet to bombard the Okra Kingdom’s Royal Capital for three days before the army attacked, while he considered how to establish his future kingdom. The bombardment began and continued for seventy-two hours, leaving Ross to await the capital’s fall and his own death.

• Velin ordered the Floating Fleet to attack the Royal Capital for three days, then planned to take the city within a day.
• Velin asked Kyle whether to establish a duchy or kingdom and decided to wait until he had ten Legendary figures; he also left the question of the kingdom’s faith unresolved.
• Ignis commanded more than four hundred Floating Battleships to unleash tens of thousands of fireballs against the Holy Blood Shield, which held through the first assault.
• Ross watched the attack and estimated that the shield’s stored magic would last three or four days, then returned to the Administrative Hall to read ancient history.
• For three days, the fleet bombarded the Royal Capital roughly every half hour, day and night.

The First Corps and Second Corps attacked the Okra Kingdom’s capital, shattered its defenses, and breached the city wall and gate. As the Okra army collapsed, Iden and Valerian Ex advanced toward the Royal Palace from opposite directions.

• Orlando ordered the Mage Corps to build siege ramps while the Magic Energy Cannon bombardment weakened the Holy Blood Shield.
• The First Corps charged the city wall, and the Okra defenders broke into retreat under the assault.
• The First Corps battered down the city gate and poured into the capital as Okra soldiers threw away their weapons and fled.
• Iden led the First Battalion, First Legion, First Corps toward the Royal Palace while Valerian Ex led the First Battalion, Eleventh Corps, Second Corps toward it from the south.

Iden and Valerian led the Qixing Army into the Royal Palace and confronted Ross, whose strength far exceeded their intelligence. After Ross defeated both generals, he flew toward the Floating Battleships and began battling Ignis, where Ross challenged him to prove he could kill him.

• Iden and Valerian broke through the palace defenses and led their armies into the deserted Royal Palace.
• Ross emerged from the Administrative Hall and blasted Iden away before overpowering Valerian and severing both his arms.
• Ross flew toward the Floating Battleships, and Velin sent General Ignis to meet him.
• Ross and Ignis clashed in the sky, and Ross challenged Ignis to prove he could kill him.

Ignis defeated Ross, who possessed Oleus, and Velin met Ross in a final dreamlike conversation before Ross died. Velin accepted part of Ross’s bargain, learned they came from the same place, and ordered the surviving royal family arrested.

• Ignis pierced Oleus and ended Ross’s fight, while Ross used his remnant soul to draw Velin’s consciousness into a Dream Illusion Spell.
• Ross revealed he was Ross Okra, the founding monarch of the Okra Kingdom, and offered the royal treasury’s wealth in exchange for Velin’s terms.
• Velin agreed to forgive the imprisoned generals and protect the land’s inhabitants, but ordered the direct-line royal children killed and collateral descendants monitored.
• Ross revealed the treasury’s secret phrase was “Hometown,” and Velin realized they came from the same place, though from different times.
• Ross died after apologizing for what had happened to Velin’s two subordinates, and Velin returned to the Floating Battleship.
• Velin ordered Oleus given a proper burial and commanded his forces to arrest the royal family alive if possible.

Velin entered the royal city, spoke with the young soldier Toby, and gave him gold for his future wedding. At the ruined Royal Palace, he found Iden and Valerian gravely injured and began using Seven-Colored Crystals to heal Valerian’s shattered soul.

• Velin met Toby among the soldiers guarding the city gate, learned he hoped to return home and marry, and gave him six gold coins as a wedding gift.
• Velin entered the war-damaged city and ordered a warrior to retrieve the generals imprisoned in the dungeon.
• Velin sent Orlando into the Royal Palace ruins to bring Iden and Valerian to him.
• Orlando returned with Iden and Valerian, and Velin saw that Iden’s chest and Valerian’s life force and soul had been severely damaged.
• Velin gave Kyle responsibility for Iden and used the power of tens of thousands of Seven-Colored Crystals to cast [Healing—Soul] on Valerian.

After healing Valerian, Velin entered the Okra Kingdom’s treasury and confirmed that its secret phrase and Crimson Abyss Sword unlocked the vault, though the sword revealed no further sign of its former owner. He ordered the wealth divided and the city brought under control, then questioned the captured generals, one of whom killed himself after learning the sword had belonged to the kingdom’s first king.

• Velin healed Valerian and sent him back to the military camp before leading Kyle, Orlando, and Ignis to the royal treasury.
• Velin spoke the secret phrase, opened the treasury, and inserted the Crimson Abyss Sword into a stone platform, but nothing happened.
• Velin assigned Orlando to divide the treasury’s wealth, restore order, prohibit massacres, and raze the Royal Palace.
• Velin told the twenty-three captured Okra Kingdom generals that their king had traded the treasury’s wealth to spare their lives.
• An old general recognized the Crimson Abyss Sword as belonging to the first king, Ross, and then killed himself with a sword Velin gave him.

After the fall of the Okra Kingdom, Velin ordered the burial of its generals and considered how to govern the conquered land. He decided to gather ten Legendaries and delay founding his nation until after conquering Parambria Kingdom, so it could be established across the Okra Kingdom’s territory at its peak.

• Twenty-three Okra Kingdom generals committed suicide, and Velin ordered them buried with their king while pardoning their families unless they were unforgivable.
• Seven days after the royal capital fell, Velin reflected on governing Okra Kingdom and planned to keep Aerans out of the state’s upper ranks for at least a century.
• Kyle advised bringing in the Church of Life first, then using religious influence to secure support from the Dawn Church and Moon God Church as Velin expanded east.
• Velin planned to borrow ten Legendaries from allies and religious groups, then repay them once his nation produced its own Legendary powerhouses.
• Velin told Kyle he would found the nation after destroying Parambria Kingdom, using the territory Okra Kingdom held at its peak, and promised to explain his deeper reason on founding day.
• Velin invited Kyle to go treasure hunting the next day.

Velin and Kyle discovered a message left by Raven Archmage Edras Sorem, which pointed to a hidden resting place and its unknown customary means of entry. While Velin arranged for his uncle-in-law to come help, Duke Moravia arrived at Angus’s estate and began punishing him; Velin learned of it and stayed out of the way.

• Velin and Kyle found a crystal-lit cavern deep underground containing a stele inscribed by Raven Archmage Edras Sorem, and Kyle translated its message about a resting place holding everything the Archmage possessed.
• Velin realized the stele’s customary opening method was unknown to them and decided to summon his uncle-in-law, while Kyle suggested a fabricated story about discovering ruins and a diary.
• Velin and Kyle marked the cavern’s location and returned to the surface, then Velin traveled by Floating Ship toward Sixth Floating Array Island.
• A guard told Angus that Duke Moravia had arrived, and Angus entered the hall before Duke Moravia transported him away with a circle of light.
• Duke Moravia prepared to vent his frustration on Angus and make him undergo a newly created Trial Secret Realm.
• Kyle told Velin that Duke Moravia was at Angus’s estate and that Master Odor had not arrived; Velin mourned his father briefly and continued sunbathing.

Lancaster learned that the Okra Kingdom had fallen and ordered the news suppressed in Tukra Province while preparing to keep fighting. Meanwhile, Velin brought Odor to ancient ruins beneath the Okra capital, where Odor deciphered an inscription and activated a Star Pattern.

• Lancaster reclaimed Tyrannus Fortress and received news that the Okra Kingdom had fallen.
• Lancaster ordered his general to keep the news from spreading in Tukra Province and to kill Okran nobles seeking entry.
• Odor left the Teleportation Array and hurried toward the Okra capital to destroy an item he feared Velin had found.
• Odor confronted Velin at the Royal Palace, and Velin apologized before asking him to open ancient ruins beneath the city.
• Odor deciphered the inscription and sent a Star Pattern toward it, causing ripples in the space above it.

Velin and Odor entered a Planeswalker’s demiplane, which Odor gave to Velin while keeping the demiplane itself. Odor sent Velin into a trial meant to make a lazy phantom train, but Velin got the phantom to train while he relaxed beside him.

• Velin and Odor passed through a golden portal and arrived at the Planeswalker’s home.
• Odor offered Velin everything in the demiplane while claiming ownership of the demiplane itself, and Velin accepted without regret.
• Odor activated a hidden secret realm that sent Velin into a trial to make a lazy phantom diligent.
• Velin recognized the phantom as his younger self and lounged beside him with fruit instead of urging him to train.
• The phantom became motivated to train after seeing Velin relax, while Odor regretted that Velin had managed to enjoy both the trial and his leisure.

Velin learned that Master Odor planned to leave for an uncertain journey and feared he was preparing to bring a world into the Ilyria World cluster, so he resolved to become a Legend quickly. Meanwhile, Xuemya traveled toward the capital of the Okra Kingdom to take over the kingdom’s logistics.

• Master Odor gave Kyle a star map containing coordinates for nearly three million worlds and then went with him to meet Velin.
• Velin and Master Odor agreed they were even after Velin’s trick and Odor’s trial illusion, and Odor declined Velin’s invitation to meet an astral merchant.
• Master Odor said he would leave at the end of the year and try to return within fifty years, prompting Velin to suspect he planned to imitate the King of Chixuan.
• Velin decided to pursue the knight path, aiming to comprehend the Law of Wood and become a Legend within twenty years.
• Kyle told Velin that Xuemya was traveling to the capital of the Okra Kingdom, and Velin planned to hand her the kingdom’s logistics.
• Zeflin informed Xuemya aboard the Floating Fleet that they would reach the capital in three hours.

Xuemiyya’s Floating Fleet was ambushed by Holy Blood Knights who used powerful artifacts to suppress its defenses and disrupt her summoning magic. The attack left one battleship destroyed and Xuemiyya facing the attackers with only two Intermediate Soul Intent Ice Warriors summoned.

• Xuemiyya ordered the fleet to slow down and reach the Okra Kingdom’s Royal Capital in eight hours, while Holy Blood Knights prepared an ambush based on a divine artifact’s prediction.
• Zeflin detected hostile forces and raised the fleet’s Magic Shields, but Xuemiyya refused to enter the Demiplane and gave Zeflin command of the fleet and its Soul Intent Tier professionals.
• Five eighth-rank Holy Blood Knights sacrificed their souls to activate five Anti-Magic Cones, shattering the Magic Shields of several Floating Battleships.
• A Holy Blood Knight charged as the battle began, and a Floating Battleship was pierced; its Elemental Furnace exploded and killed hundreds of Spellcasters.
• Xuemiyya activated the Karnus Bracer to summon allies, but a Holy Blood Knight used the Core of the Spacetime Nexus to stall her magic, leaving only two Intermediate Soul Intent Ice Warriors to fight.

Xuemya’s fleet and defenders faced a Holy Blood assault in which Soul Intent fighters burned their lives to kill her. She survived the attack, but suffered severe soul and bodily injuries as the remaining Holy Blood forces were suddenly wiped out.

• Xuemya ordered the Floating Fleet to retreat and support the battlefield after its ships escaped the sealed space.
• A Ninth Rank professional opened a spatial rift while a Ninth Rank Holy Blood Knight burned his lifespan and soul to attack the flagship.
• The Holy Blood Knight split the Third Floating Fleet’s flagship apart, but failed to kill Xuemya.
• Xuemya released her mana-storage seals and fled while using mental spells to hold off four Ninth Rank Holy Blood Knights.
• One Holy Blood Knight self-destructed, and another later exploded near Xuemya, destroying her Seven Emotions Clones and damaging her soul.
• A ray of light disintegrated the two remaining Ninth Rank Holy Blood Knights, killed the surviving eighth rank Holy Blood Knights, and split apart the Ninth Rank professional.

Odor rescued Xuemya from a devastating attack and brought her to Velin, who treated her injuries. After learning the Holy Blood Papal State was likely responsible, Velin decided to cripple it and force the surrounding nations to submit or fight for new territory, while Xuemya worried about the expeditionary army’s future.

• Odor extracted the magic threatening Xuemya and teleported her to Velin, while Zeflin stayed behind to oversee the Third Floating Fleet’s cleanup.
• Galia led the recovery effort after the attack destroyed eleven Floating Battleships and killed more than a thousand Spellcasters.
• Odor woke Velin, explained that enemies had attacked Xuemya, and suggested changing Velin’s strategy of feeding war with war.
• Velin treated Xuemya’s injuries through the night, and she recovered enough to identify the Holy Blood Papal State as the likely attacker.
• Velin resolved to cripple the Holy Blood Papal State, then demand that the Parambria Kingdom surrender or seize new territory, while Xuemya questioned how the expeditionary army would earn military merits without war.

Velin planned the new nation's military and offered Xuemya command over two legions, then prepared to move against the Holy Blood Papal State by borrowing forces and divine artifacts from the Dawn Church. Zeflin arrived to report her failure during the escort mission as Velin decided to dismiss her and reorganize the Ice Legion.

• Velin outlined a 16.08-million-square-kilometer nation that would need 2.4 million standing troops and nine floating fleets, and offered Xuemya control over two legions.
• Xuemya accepted responsibility for building the system but refused authority over the nation's military lifeblood; Velin assigned Zeflin's Ice Legion as one of her two legions and planned to remove Zeflin as commander.
• Velin told Kyle to contact the Dawn Church and request three Legends, nine hundred Soul Intent Transcendents, and divine artifacts to support an attack on the Holy Blood Papal State.
• Velin ordered Kyle to place the Ice Legion under Cassius, compensate the Third Floating Fleet, contact Master Galia, and eliminate the remnants of the Okra Kingdom's royal army within half a year.
• Zeflin entered the garden to report to Velin, aware that she had failed to protect Xuemya during the escort mission.